Aging Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/aging/ Musings on Mothering, Metamorphosis and More Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:06:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/lisapullenkent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-daisies-2485064_1920-1-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Aging Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/aging/ 32 32 52246340 What Do You Know? https://lisapullenkent.com/what-do-you-know/ https://lisapullenkent.com/what-do-you-know/#comments Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:25 +0000 https://lisapullenkent.com/?p=4202 I held some strong convictions when I was young. I just knew what I knew was true because, well, “when you know, you know,” right? But I didn’t know what I didn’t know. For most of us, we often miss … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/what-do-you-know/feed/ 8 4202 Evanescent https://lisapullenkent.com/evanescent/ https://lisapullenkent.com/evanescent/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:46:05 +0000 https://lisapullenkent.com/?p=3413 When I was growing up we moved a lot, big moves crisscrossing the country. Perpetually the new kid, I never stayed long enough to feel like I fit in. Then, I married a man whose childhood was the opposite of … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/evanescent/feed/ 19 3413 Cancer in a COVID World https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/ https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/#comments Fri, 08 May 2020 20:29:55 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2456 Lately, my emotions are scrubbed up raw. Tender, like new skin. My nerve endings fire all the time. I feel everything without a buffer, as if there are no more desensitizing layers laid down with busy, distracted, numbing activity. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/feed/ 12 2456 The Greatest Gift https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/ https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:52:12 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2022 When I was young, I married my best friend. It’s a cliché easy to dismiss as sentimental until it happens to you. In my husband, I found my home. Now, ensconced in midlife and traversing the terrain of family life, … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/feed/ 2 2022 Love in the Stitches https://lisapullenkent.com/love-in-the-stitches/ https://lisapullenkent.com/love-in-the-stitches/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2018 01:22:02 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1957 The older I get, the more I’m drawn homeward. When the weather turns cold, my craving for soup on the stove, a fire in the hearth, and time to knit begs to be slaked. Chilly temps find me cruising arts … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/love-in-the-stitches/feed/ 0 1957 Depth of Field https://lisapullenkent.com/depth-of-field/ https://lisapullenkent.com/depth-of-field/#respond Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:05:09 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1948 It’s a gorgeous spring day on our 22 acres outside Fulton, a brocade of rolling green set against a periwinkle sky. It’s where I come to breathe. Today all four kids, their families, plus my dad and sister visiting from … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/depth-of-field/feed/ 0 1948 Coming Home https://lisapullenkent.com/coming-home/ https://lisapullenkent.com/coming-home/#respond Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:29:10 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2007 The night is a pleasant 68 degrees, but heat emanates from the bright stadium lights, and I’m damp beneath my Rock Bridge High School T-shirt. My boots clink on the aluminum steps as I climb past the student section and … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/coming-home/feed/ 0 2007 A Good Enough Mother https://lisapullenkent.com/a-good-enough-mother/ https://lisapullenkent.com/a-good-enough-mother/#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:27:09 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1954 The words are sharp, a staccato litany of frustrations ricocheting around the room. They’re mine, directed at my misbehaving teenager. Adrenaline shoots through my veins. Careful, I think, sucking in a breath, holding it. The silence echoes loudly. In my … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/a-good-enough-mother/feed/ 0 1954 Swallowed in Sorrow https://lisapullenkent.com/swallowed-in-sorrow/ https://lisapullenkent.com/swallowed-in-sorrow/#respond Wed, 31 May 2017 00:12:14 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1951 In the hush of the hotel room I hear cars rushing by on the busy interstate. Above the hum of the fan, a far-off siren rises and recedes. It’s late. My teenage daughters make their cozy bed on the pullout … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/swallowed-in-sorrow/feed/ 0 1951 And So This Is Christmas … Let The Grief In https://lisapullenkent.com/and-so-this-is-christmas-let-the-grief-in/ https://lisapullenkent.com/and-so-this-is-christmas-let-the-grief-in/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:45:18 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1818 It’s late December, only days to Christmas. The kids are out of school and it’s dark already at 4:30 pm. All the lights burn in the kitchen where my husband is busy making sugar cookies with our girls. Flour dusts … Continue reading →

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